Mark 1:1-11

JuliaSmith(i) 1 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it has been written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. 3 A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his beaten paths straight. 4 John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins. 5 And the Judean country, and the Jerusalemites, were going out to him, and all were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their sins. 6 And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey; 7 And he proclaimed, saying, The stronger than I comes after me, of whom I am not sufficient, having bent the head, to loose the strings of his shoes. 8 I truly immersed you in water: but he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit. 9 And it was in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed by John in Jordan. 10 And quickly coming up from the water, he saw the heavens cleft asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him: 11 And a voice was from the heavens; Thou art my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.